Page 13 - All About History - Issue 11-14

A laboratory technician carries out a test to
compare Teflon with another plastic, 1940

Alexander Graham Bell, the
Scottish scientist and inventor

Gas lamp technology lights the
streets of Ohio, USA, 1885
The Piltdown Man is arguably
the greatest hoax in the
history of science

The Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, the
world’s most powerful particle accelerator

Painting of the Dutch surgeon Dr Nicolaes
Tulp giving an anatomy lesson

© Alamy; Look and Learn; Getty; SPL; Corbis

13
Some scientists used to believe head
measurements indicated intelligence